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The Lesser Key of Solomon, Book IV: Ars Almadel

Anonymous; ed. Joseph H. Peterson

Four choras or altitudes, each with its own angels, approached through a wax tablet rather than a circle. The gentlest of the five books: its spirits are addressed as angels and asked rather than constrained.

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Carried, and citing nothing

Carried as an object rather than as a witness. The fourth book concerns the making and use of a single implement, and is almost entirely instruction. What it contributes here is the fact of its inclusion: the collection that gave the West its most reproduced demon list also contains three books that are not demon lists at all.

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